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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Sunday was my annual Christmas luncheon that I have hosted for years with my girlfriend's of 25 years. We had a few missing this year, but were still able to have a blast!

Above are the projects they made. Since they are all teenagers and young adults now, Starbuck's projects were the perfect plan for their crafts.

These are the cards they made, the stamp set is called Coffee Cafe, the Starbuck's logos I googled and printed off and punched out with circle punches.

These are mini 4oz. coffee cups that we filled with Hershey kisses.

You can find them online at Webstaurant.com

We made these ornaments by using green glass ornaments from Michael's and using the Starbuck's hot cozies. They are just hot glued and we added gold twine and a hook.

The cookie straws are the actual ones sold at Starbucks.

I just cut a 2 1/2" x 4" piece of cardstock and punched 3/4" circle punch at the top and bottom to insert the cookie through.

The girls are all getting so grown up!

The Mama's!

Check out their faces! I had these super hilarious face cards that you can change your smile and mouth with. They are reversible and have all kinds of mouths! So fun!

Since the girls are all getting so much older I decided to make these Starbuck's cup gifts for them. I filled them with a pair of fuzzy socks, a lip gloss, christmas candies and of course a Starbuck's gift card.

Friday, December 8, 2017

When I worked a for local wedding company a few years ago, they took us to this candy shop for our Christmas party where we got to make chocolate truffles and molded candies. I just found this Santa mold in my cupboard and decided to make a few.

They are just plastic molds that you use with Melt and Mold chocolates from the chocolate company Wilton's.

Found at your local craft stores.

These are a good sized box, the lid comes off and you can put any small item inside. Not sure if you have seen these cute Santa hat Hershey kisses. They are perfect for this!

Monday, December 4, 2017

Friday's creative class was so fun creating some Christmas projects. Above everyone is at the hot glue station, which I now have decided to call the Glue Bar!

More happy creatives!

These two were creating outside of the box! One of the projects were to decorate these glass ornaments. They turned their's into these hysterical Rudolph ornaments! Look at those googlie eyes!

We made these pallet "Peace On Earth" wall decor

The white wood boards I found at the Dollar Tree, they were originally brown with a saying on them. I used antique white spray paint to cover them up and dry brushed some brown raw umber acrylic paint to distress them.

And for the man in our lives, we wrapped "firestarters" by duraflame to add to their Christmas stockings.

They made a set of 6 of the Winter cards covered in glitter.

It's always fun to find ornaments that you can alter. These were simple glass colored ornaments that they added vintage trim to, some gold threading and a bell.

This was the last ornament made. I found these cute plastic ornaments at the Dollar Tree. They come empty. I picked up some trees and snowmen and mica flake snow to put inside of them. Pretty darn cute!

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Here's a fun way to decorate your home. I found these canvas and burlap bags at Home Goods and Target. Thanks to @bloomingdiyer showing how to do this, you can make these cute pillows for the holiday.

The bags run between $5.99 and $7.99. The small ones $1.50-3.00

Start by looking in your home for maybe extra pillows that you don't use anymore before going out and buying new ones.

I used ones I no longer use. Taking the bags measure how big your pillow is that you are going to cover and cut off the top and bottom of the bag and sew the bottom, stuff your pillow inside and sew the top. I did all my sewing on the machine. It literally took me all of five minutes to sew this large one.

For the small pillows I used and old pillow and cut it open to use the fiberfill so I wouldn't have to go buy any.

About Me

Hi all!
I'm Julie Pitta
I am a creative who loves to make all things beautiful and who loves to inspire others through various means of creativity.
You can find me as a Event Coordinator or Designer. My background is Graphic Arts and Design,
I enjoy photography ,display and design, and home decorating as well as paper crafting.
Glad you stopped by to be inspired!